Joe Walsh: no exceptions for life of the mother in anti-abortion law

Joe Walsh: no exceptions for the life or health of the mother needed in anti-abortion legisklation because medical advances would prevent women from actually dying. Between this guy and that Akin guy (of "women don't get pregnant in cases of legitimate rape so exceptions for rape are not needed either" fame), plus all the anti-abortion legislation introduced by Tea Partiers in Congress in recent months, the GOP has officially become the anti-woman party. And did you know that Walsh and Akin, along with GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan, cosponsored legislation that would have redefined rape as "forcible rape"? (What the hell other kind of rape is there??!!!!) And did you know that Romney, when he was Mormon bishop in Boston, tried to persuade a woman not to have a life-saving abortion? He told her flat out that his priorities were with the fetus, not with her, the living breathing woman with three little childrren at home whose life was threatened by her pregnancy.

These men are dangerous. They are moving the conversation on women's most BASIC human right, bodily autonomy, so far to the right that we are fighting the baseline once again. Get these men OUT OF POWER!

By the way, if you think this is not relevant for your life, think again. You never know when you might have an ectopic pregnancy. You never know when your fetus might be diagnosed with a serious anomaly and you might desire to prevent your future child from suffering. You never know when your life might be at serious risk in a pregnancy and you might want to decide to not risk it because you have a small child at home who needs a mother. You never know when you might be raped by some vile creature whose child you do NOT want to bring into this world.

We are not a Christian nation. Lets do a quick history lesson here. The puritans came to the new land 500 years ago to avoid religious perscusion fromt he Church of England. They wanted religious freedom in the new land. They did not want someone's religious view imposed on them. The irony of that is that in 2012 the republican party once to imposs their views on everyone else.

As far as you being a Christian. That is terrific. I am a Jew. HOwever, I do not want a law passing that people in US can't eat pork or have tattoos. Would that be fair. Or wait, should all America woman well Hijabs(SP??) because muslim woman are supposed to.

Even if it were true that Obama wanted to ban all guns (which is obviously NOT the case), I would still be more afraid of the nutjobs in the GOP who say things like what Joe Walsh or Todd Akin have said, or of a vice presidential candidate that voted for a bill introducig the language of "forcible rape," or of a presidential candidate who can be so callous that he states quite clearly to a woman who finds herself in a terrible situation of having to abort a wanted pregnancy to save her own life, that his priority is with the fetus and not with her.

That is a hell of a lot more scary than any real or imagined anti-gun laws.

By the way, I am a Christian and I am pro-choice like many other Christians (who are not conservative Catholics or evangelicals) are. I also know that this country was founded on Enlightenment principles and not as a Christian nation.

Can we stick to the topic? Can GOP women tell me why these men are OK with them? And if not, why they would vote for them?